Android - How to trigger a Broadcast Receiver to call its onReceive() method?

Question

I have scheduled alarm for my application.

I have implemented broadcast receiver to be triggered once the alarm time reaches.

How to manually call broadcast re

Answer 1

How to manually call broadcast receiver to execute the code inside of onReceive method without replicating the code twice.

Fire BroadcastReceiver using sendBroadcast same action which added in AndroidManifest.xml :

Intent intent=new Intent(CUSTOM_ACTION_STRING);
// Add data in Intent using intent.putExtra if any required to pass 
sendBroadcast(intent);

what is that android:exported parameter means

As in android:exported doc : Whether or not the broadcast receiver can receive messages from sources outside its application — "true" if it can, and "false" if not

Means if:

android:exported=true: other application also able to fire this broadcast receiver using action

android:exported=false: other application not able to fire this broadcast receiver using action